non-English contact name is not encoded correctly in from or to field about android-sms HOT 22 OPEN

This problems also occurs if the contact's name contains accented characters 
like é. 

Issue 44 has been merged into this issue.

same issue with contacts containing the danish chars æ,ø,å (Å,Ø,Æ)

these sms'es show up as unknow in gmail :)

I also have the same problem...
In Portuguese many contact names have special characters and they appears as 
unknown
in gmail.

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Hi! Any update on this fix?
Would really be great to have this working! :-)

Hi, any updates?

I just built an apk with a hack fix on this issue: Encode the name before 
constructing the 
Address object. I also added one more option in advance setting to display user 
name. It 
works well for me!

I attached it here for any one who couldn't wait for a real fix, but I don't 
undertake any 
potential issues due to this apk file. Looking forward to the real fix :-)

@zhouguih...

Hi, could you submit your code changes to the repository?

I don't have submit permission for this project. @chstude, my workaound is just 
one-
line code change, could you apply this fix first? Or do you have plan to fix 
the 
MimeMessage class?

@zhouguih..., thanks for the tips. I made following changes to the code, and it 
works 
for me so far.

Index: android-client/src/tv/studer/smssync/CursorToMessage.java
===================================================================
--- android-client/src/tv/studer/smssync/CursorToMessage.java   (revision 65)
+++ android-client/src/tv/studer/smssync/CursorToMessage.java   (working copy)
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 import com.android.email.mail.Message.RecipientType;
 import com.android.email.mail.internet.MimeMessage;
 import com.android.email.mail.internet.TextBody;
+import org.apache.james.mime4j.codec.EncoderUtil;

 public class CursorToMessage {

@@ -193,7 +194,7 @@
                 PersonRecord record = new PersonRecord();
                 record._id = String.valueOf(personId);
                 record.name = name;
-                record.address = new Address(primaryEmail, name);
+                record.address = new Address(primaryEmail, 
EncoderUtil.encodeAddressDisplayName(name));

                 mPeopleCache.put(address, record);
             } else {

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Hi XuJiyong

Thanks for your patch. I'll add it to the next release assuming you're fine 
with releasing 
it under the Apache 2 license.

I'm fine with it. :) 

Hi! Any plan with the new release?
Would be great to get this fixed.
Thanks!

please release the fix!

I have the same problem. Any contact containing non-ASCII character is 
displayed as (unknown) on gmail mailbox. Solution can be using sender/reciever 
as UTF-8 encoded strings. Hope to Android has some inbuild support for unicode 
strings.

SMS Backup + (https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/#readme) is a good 
alternative. It does non-ASCII just fine. It is a fork of the original SMS 
Backup application.

I've switched to SMS Backup + for this one reason.